[seruzawa]

Oh, you've noticed that too? At my advancing age I've seen the slow erosion of freedom in many places in the US. Things that got me a chewing out by the local police when I was a teenager now result in major legal hassles, arrests, forced psychiatric drugging and worse.

Yet, with all this increase in govt power, gun control, anger managment behavior modification, etc., the problems of violence get worse, not better.

Orwell's timetable was just a bit early, that's all. Note how today we are told we'll keep our freedom if we go along with such things as the Homeland Security Office. Or as some call it the Ministry of Love.

 

[seruzawa]

"I'm just glad to do my part in giving money to the govt. You know, so they can by more cameras and stuff."



Well, if that's the majority opinion you can bet that the worst is yet to come. In England the police can already place you on probabtion and restrict your movements if they believe that you might become involved in illegal activity, even if you have never been arrested. On top of that it's already illegal to say anything publicly that might offend any govt designated minority. The Home Secretary was even trying to get these speech codes applied to people in their own homes a few years back. I don't know if he succeeded.

Seen any pictures of the "bobbies" lately? They always seem to be carrying submachineguns. So much for gun control and intrusive govt creating a safe society. It creates the opposite.

England, the Cradle of Freedom, my @$$.

 

[seruzawa]

One has to wonder at the cluelessness of people who think that the govt is going to eliminate stupidity. It's sort of like expecting the KKK to eliminate racism.



My favorite stupidity these days are the idiot socialists who hate HMOs and want to solve the problems associated with HMOs by forcing everyone into socialized medicine, in effect a huge national HMO. What morons.